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Sunday, December 28, 2014

Today even the GOSL polls have finally turned the tide towards MS!

Just now even the most conservative of
Govt. polls has just put Maithri ahead of Mahinda by a squeaker! For the first
time. It now shows in the faces of all GOSL leaders still remaining (meaning
still stomping for MR). Don’t forget most of the others though who have NOT
jumped are NOT stomping for MR and are out of sight, not even been seen in the
electorates they are supposed to be working in!

There is NO hearsay now, it is factual.
It is 51% to MS. Of course the Joint opposition pollsters show 55% to MR’s 45%
of those likely to vote. They expect that to be a tide, which on polling day
will be 58% to 42%. However that depends on how much or how many billions the
GOSL is willing to give away to persuade people to vote for them.

There is a talk that they are willing to
offer 500,000 Rs 5000 notes for a vote at the last minute, and so the
opposition will have to be over 500,000 thousand ahead at that time in case
people take the money and also foolishly cast the vote also, not realizing that
they are different transactions!

The nationwide day of reckoning was
today. All across the Country, the only organized opposition, namely the UNP
were at work in the electorates, going house to house, with Sirikotha inundated
and then running out of leaflets to give the organizers. Their campaign for the
most part was successful, and well received across the country.

The Universal comment was where are the
GOSL workers? Even the RDA workers and the Samurdhi recipients who have to sign
up and help, to get their Samurdhi welfare were also missing! Are they hiding,
and are they campaigning out of sight? No one was able to provide an answer
except to say that ALL UPFA offices were bereft of people, just leaflets packed
piles high with no one able to deliver them. While the opposite was true of the
Opposition UNP offices, No leaflets but plenty of volunteers to go house to
house to deliver them.

Of course the above is at 28th
Dec, and much can happen by 8th January. However the GOSL has run
out of steam, they are just offering oodles of cash for PS members to cross,
now starting at Rs10M. The GOSL campaign in now just reduced to hugely
expensive TV, Radio, and Newspaper ads. And Ironically the radio ads are
counter-productive as it is the Maharaja ones, that are putting people off even
more, and if they had any sense should be pulling them out as they are having a negative effect. However it is
not over until it is over, so its NOT OVER yet!